908 research outputs found
Grand Challenges of Traceability: The Next Ten Years
In 2007, the software and systems traceability community met at the first
Natural Bridge symposium on the Grand Challenges of Traceability to establish
and address research goals for achieving effective, trustworthy, and ubiquitous
traceability. Ten years later, in 2017, the community came together to evaluate
a decade of progress towards achieving these goals. These proceedings document
some of that progress. They include a series of short position papers,
representing current work in the community organized across four process axes
of traceability practice. The sessions covered topics from Trace Strategizing,
Trace Link Creation and Evolution, Trace Link Usage, real-world applications of
Traceability, and Traceability Datasets and benchmarks. Two breakout groups
focused on the importance of creating and sharing traceability datasets within
the research community, and discussed challenges related to the adoption of
tracing techniques in industrial practice. Members of the research community
are engaged in many active, ongoing, and impactful research projects. Our hope
is that ten years from now we will be able to look back at a productive decade
of research and claim that we have achieved the overarching Grand Challenge of
Traceability, which seeks for traceability to be always present, built into the
engineering process, and for it to have "effectively disappeared without a
trace". We hope that others will see the potential that traceability has for
empowering software and systems engineers to develop higher-quality products at
increasing levels of complexity and scale, and that they will join the active
community of Software and Systems traceability researchers as we move forward
into the next decade of research
Grand Challenges of Traceability: The Next Ten Years
In 2007, the software and systems traceability community met at the first
Natural Bridge symposium on the Grand Challenges of Traceability to establish
and address research goals for achieving effective, trustworthy, and ubiquitous
traceability. Ten years later, in 2017, the community came together to evaluate
a decade of progress towards achieving these goals. These proceedings document
some of that progress. They include a series of short position papers,
representing current work in the community organized across four process axes
of traceability practice. The sessions covered topics from Trace Strategizing,
Trace Link Creation and Evolution, Trace Link Usage, real-world applications of
Traceability, and Traceability Datasets and benchmarks. Two breakout groups
focused on the importance of creating and sharing traceability datasets within
the research community, and discussed challenges related to the adoption of
tracing techniques in industrial practice. Members of the research community
are engaged in many active, ongoing, and impactful research projects. Our hope
is that ten years from now we will be able to look back at a productive decade
of research and claim that we have achieved the overarching Grand Challenge of
Traceability, which seeks for traceability to be always present, built into the
engineering process, and for it to have "effectively disappeared without a
trace". We hope that others will see the potential that traceability has for
empowering software and systems engineers to develop higher-quality products at
increasing levels of complexity and scale, and that they will join the active
community of Software and Systems traceability researchers as we move forward
into the next decade of research
Information Retrieval based requirement traceability recovery approaches- A systematic literature review
Abstract: The term traceability is an important concept regarding software development. It enables software engineers to trace requirements from their origin to fulfillment. Maintaining traceability manually is a time consuming and expensive job. Information retrieval methods provide a mean of automation for requirement traceability. A visible number of IR based traceability techniques have been proposed in the literature, but the adoption of these techniques in the industry is limited. In this paper, we examine the information retrieval-based traceability recovery approaches through systematic literature review. We presented a synthesis of these techniques. We also identified challenges that are potentially limiting the adoption of IR based traceability recovery approaches. We conclude that term mismatch is a major barrier faced by IR based approaches. We also did classify the approaches that are attempting to solve the term mismatch problem
Archival Study of Blockchain Applications in the Construction Industry From Literature Published in 2019 and 2020
Purpose: This paper aims to investigate proposed blockchain applications in the construction industry from contemporary
literature.
Methodology: Archival studies will be used to obtain academic content from secondary sources. An explorative strategy
will be adopted with no preconception or biases on the preferred route of execution. Blockchain is a fast-evolving technology
with a high rate of yearly progression; therefore, this paper refines the search to recently published material in 2019 and
2020. Data is collected in two stages, firstly, categories of research are extrapolated from secondary literature and recorded
into a table, and afterwards, the corresponding proposed application of blockchain is documented and reviewed.
Findings: An adequate breadth and variety of categories are substantiated from archival literature, which effectively
contributes to the extraction of proposed blockchain applications for construction. The data collection extracts 19 categories
from the explorative study, in which 19 proposed solutions (one per category) is presented. All of the advisory content for
the proposed solutions were obtained from a deliberated selection of 21 academic study papers.
Limitations: The study is limited to one proposed application per category, totalling 19 proposed solutions; however,
assessing various approaches per category could not be researched comparatively due to voluminous information. Thus,
recommendations incorporate a holistic case study of one subject category which incorporates a multitude of various
proposed applications.
Originality: This paper contributes to new knowledge through extrapolating proposed blockchain applications from
academic literature in 2019 and 2020
Prospectiva de Integración de Blockchain e Internet de las Cosas para una implementación en Clúster
Introduction: The present article is the result of the investigation and approach to the applications and developments of blockchain and Internet of Things (IoT), developed during the second semester of the year 2019 and first of 2020.
Problem: Construction of environments and mediums in a cluster structure that allow companies and institutions to cooperate and compete to achieve efficiency and strengthen grouping.
Objective: Integrate blockchain and IoT to develop and present a two-level architecture, from which a support environment is established and a series of functionalities are offered for a cluster implementation.
Methodology: Review articles to achieve an approach to blockchain and IoT architecture, configuration and description of structural and functional levels.
Results: An architecture with a structural level constituted by a decentralized computer application based on blockchains, a sensory and response network that incorporates IoT technologies and an intermediate component of cloud computing; this, at a functional level that manages to offer users support and help in their activities from modules created with a particular specialty.
Conclusion: The structural level furthered the integration of base technologies, blockchain and IoT; on the other hand, the second level of architecture reveals the potential and versatility of these technologies.
Originality: Proposal for the implementation of blockchain, IoT and cloud computing in a cluster structure.
Limitations: The difficulty of accessing a cluster to perform a test of the architecture in a real environment.Introducción: El presente artículo es el resultado de la investigación y acercamiento a las aplicaciones y desarrollos del blockchain e Internet de las Cosas (IoT), estudio desarrollada durante el segundo semestre del año 2019 y primero de 2020.
Problema: Construcción de entornos y medios en una estructura de clúster que permitan a las empresas e instituciones cooperar y competir para alcanzar la eficiencia y el fortalecimiento de la agrupación.
Objetivo: Integrar blockchain e Internet de las Cosas para desarrollar y presentar una arquitectura de dos niveles, desde los cuales se establezca un entorno de apoyo y se ofrezcan una serie de funcionalidades para una implementación en clúster.
Metodología: Revisión de artículos para lograr un acercamiento al blockchain e Internet de las Cosas, planteamiento de la arquitectura, configuración y descripción de los niveles estructural y funcional.Resultados: Arquitectura con un nivel estructural constituido por una aplicación informática descentralizada basada en blockchain, una red sensorial y de respuesta que incorpora tecnologías de Internet de las Cosas y un componte intermedio de computación en la nube; y un nivel funcional que logra ofrecer a los usuarios soporte y ayuda en sus actividades desde módulos creados con una especialidad en particular.
Conclusión: El nivel estructural permitió ahondar en la integración de las tecnologías base, blockchain e Internet de las Cosas; por su parte el segundo nivel de la arquitectura deja entrever el potencial y versatilidad de dichas tecnologías.
Originalidad: Propuesta de implementación del blockchain, Internet de las Cosas y la computación en la nube en una estructura de clúster.
Limitaciones: La dificultad de acceso a un clúster para realizar una prueba de la arquitectura en un entorno real
Internet of Things Strategic Research Roadmap
Internet of Things (IoT) is an integrated part of Future Internet including existing and evolving Internet and network developments and could be conceptually defined as a dynamic global network infrastructure with self configuring capabilities based on standard and interoperable communication protocols where physical and virtual “things” have identities, physical attributes, and virtual personalities, use intelligent interfaces, and are seamlessly integrated into the information network
Exploratory literature review of blockchain in the construction industry
First academic publications on blockchain in construction instantiated in 2017, with three documents. Over the course of several years, new literature emerged at an average annual growth rate of 184%, surmounting to 121 documents at time of writing this article in early 2021. All 121 publications were reviewed to investigate the expansion and progression of the topic. A mixed methods approach was implemented to assess the existing environment through a literature review and scientometric analysis. Altogether, 33 application categories of blockchain in construction were identified and organised into seven subject areas, these include (1) procurement and supply chain, (2) design and construction, (3) operations and life cycle, (4) smart cities, (5) intelligent systems, (6) energy and carbon footprint, and (7) decentralised organisations. Limitations included using only one scientific database (Scopus), this was due to format inconsistencies when downloading and merging various bibliographic data sets for use in visual mapping software
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